‘“For me, it’s the same way. For my own sake, I can’t really change my game with different teams,” Johnson said. “I just try to prepare the same way with what I want to do, how I want to go into a game and where I want to be in certain positions. With any team, you watch power play, penalty kill and end zone stuff so I’m more prepared for different teams in that sense with what to expect with their game plan. But other than that, my game stays the same.”’

‘”We gave it to them,” Girgensons said. “We made way too many mistakes in the whole game (and) that’s one team that you can’t give that many opportunities to score. They’ve got guys who can put the puck in.”‘

‘Buffalo tried to weather the proverbial storm that the Capitals threw at them to start the third period, but it proved to be too much. Alex Ovechkin took a nifty pass right at the front of the net and did not miss. This was just moments after Zach Bogosian preserved the Sabres lead by sweeping the puck off of the goal line and away from the net.’

‘”They come out and they’re a skilled team,” Sabres forward Jack Eichel said. “We’ve got to be better in our own zone as a whole, harder to play against. [We had] a couple costly turnovers and you can’t turn the puck over to a team like that.”‘